Resultados de búsqueda: Suspense from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: Mysterious Press, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The 18th novel in Stark's noir crime series featuring Parker, a stone-cold killer and master thief and holdup man. The series came to an end in the 1970s after 16 books until Stark, aka Donald E. Westlake, revived it after a 23-year hiatus with an additional eight novels as tough as the earlier ones, with Parker as cool, smart and deadly as ever. In this one, Parker plans to rip off a gambling boat, a floating casino on the Hudson River, but some of his partners in the enterprise want more than their share and crossing Parker almost always gets you dead. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows only light surface and edgewear, no tears, no creasing or chipping. Not price-clipped or remaindered. A collectable copy.

New York: Dell, 1958. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Dell D238 (#18 in the Dell Great Mystery Library); originally published in 1937, this is one of the first and truly classic novels of intrigue and espionage; First Printing of First Dell Edition; text is clean, tight, slight spine lean, age-browned in pictorial wrappers with reading creases, minor surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. the first of Huston's suspense-thrillers features a U.S. merchant ship hijacked by terrorists hoping to spark an international incident and causing a consitutional crisis as the President refuses to use military action while Congress attempts to start its own war; small remainder mark on bottom edge of text, o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket. Becoming hard to find.

New York: Dutton, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Award-winning McCrumb's fifteenth book is a mystery-suspense novel featuring North Carolina Sheriff Spencer Arrowood racing against the executioner as he re-opens a twenty-year-old murder case that has parallels with an even older one from 1833. Text is clean, tight, square in dustjacket with very minor surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A departure from MacDonald's favored Florida settings, this crime/thriller deals with land fraud and politics in Mississippi where a ruthless realtor plans to sell the federal government an island that may disappear in the next storm, challenged only by an ordinary man for whom honor is more than just a word. Boards very slightly soiled, with a small stain on inside back cover and back end page; the dustjacket shows some rubbing and shelfwear but no significant flaws.

New York: Fawcett Gold Medal/Ballantine, 1987. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. The final novel from this Mystery Grand Master is a departure from his favored Florida settings and his legendary "salvage consultant" Travis McGee. This crime-thriller is set on Mississippi's gulf coast where a powerful and ruthless realtor is planning on selling an island that may disappear in the next storm to the federal government. Standing in the way is an ordinary man for whom honor is more than just another word. Black pictorial wrappers show a mild reading crease, light surface and edge wear. Text is complete, clean and unmarked, just a very slight spine lean. Collectable copy of the last work of one of the all-time best crime-thriller writers.

Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1972. First Printing, First U.S. PB Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Crest P1766; a later novel from one of the master craftsmen of mystery-suspense features a movie company on location on a ship in the Barents Sea, hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle; text is clean, tight, square in pictorial wrappers with very slight crease on front cover, o/w minimal surface and edgewear.

Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1971. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. From one of the grand masters of the adventure novel, a story of the murderous intrigue surrounding a movie crew's journey to a deserted island in the Arctic. Collectable Copy.

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Trade Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. A collection of mystery and detective short stories, including work by Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan King, Benjamin Cavell and Frederick Waterman among others, edited by Nelson DeMille and Otto Penzler. Text is clean, tight, square; pictorial wrappers show only very minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce.

New York: New American Library, 1964. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Signet D2539; The Hugo Award winner's story of revolution on an Earth that has become Utopia, free of poverty, pain, disease but not discontent; Second Printing of First Paperback Edition; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers showing only minimal soiling, creasing, other surface and edgewear.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Deighton's fourth novel of Cold War espionage and intrigue; First Printing of the First American Edition; boards and text are clean, tight; dustjacket shows some minor wear and discoloration along spine, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. A collectable copy.

New York: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Greeley's indomitable Bishop Blackie Ryan is the logical, in fact, the only choice, of Chicago's Archbishop Cronin to investigate the disappearance of a new bishop and the L train that went missing with him. Text is clean, tight, square in dustjacket showing minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Shamus Award-winner Emerson introduces a new mystery series featuring ex-fireman, now Sheriff Mac Fontana of Staircase, WA; text shows modest spine lean o/w this copy would rate Near Fine to Fine.

New York: Doubleday, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. About Very Good/Very Good. Hunter's eighth novel is a crime-thriller from his series featuring ex-Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, this time searching for answers in the murder of his Arkansas state trooper father, gunned down in a shoot-out with a pair of robbers forty years ago; small whitish stain near bottom edge of front cover and some small white marks on back cover; a few dogearred pages, moderate spine lean, o/w book is clean and tight; dustjacket has local store price sticker across bar code on back panel, minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Standiford's seventh suspense-thriller features New York subway cop Richard Corrigan, who saves the life of Wyoming's governor, and finds himself a late addition to the governor's long-planned wilderness vacation, which turns into a battle for survival against Nature and psychopathic killers. Collectable and becoming hard to find.

New York: Warner Books, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The third novel by an under-appreciated suspense-thriller writer is set in April, 1945, at the end of World War II, with a small group of surviving Nazis in possession of a weapon of mass destruction; bookseller's code lightly stamped on front end page, o/w text and boards are clean, tight, square; price-clipped dustjacket shows some slight rubbing and shelfwear.

New York: HarperCollins, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second novel in Ford's bestselling crime-thriller series featuring rogue journalist, Frank Corso, now a reclusive true crime writer. This time Corso is attending the closed-court trial of West Coast crime boss, Nicolas Balagula, charged with sixty-three counts of murder and likely to beat the charges until events turn Corso into Balagula's implacable enemy. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket is equally Fine, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. A very collectable copy.

Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1975. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Gold Medal M3187; the 20th book in Atlee's spy-thriller series featuring U.S. counter-intelligence agent Joe Gall, this time in Brazil hunting a South American terrorist organization; Paperback Original, First Printing of True First Edition; dime-sized "cats paw" ink stamp on front end page, o/w text is clean, tight, lightly age-tanned with a slight spine lean in pictorial wrappers showing minor surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: HarperCollins, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The third novel in Ford's bestselling crime-thriller series featuring rogue journalist, Frank Corso, sees Corso and photographer Meg Dougherty seeking shelter from a midwestern blizzard in an abandoned Wisconsin farmhouse and finding, under the floor of a shed, a family of corpses. The local sheriff, understaffed, puts Corso to work hunting a murderer halfway across the country. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. Dustjacket is equally Fine, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2006. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A departure from the award-winning Rankin's Inspector Rebus mystery series, this crime-thriller features Gordon Reeve, a retired SAS killer, traveling to California to begin his own investigation into the death of his journalist brother only to become the killer's next target. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square; the dustjacket shows only very minor surface and edgewear. A collectable copy of this book first published in the UK in 1995 under the pseudonymn, Jack Harvey.